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Kinlund, C. (2011). Vintage Gutenberg printing press\u00a0<\/em>[Photograph]. licensed under\u00a0CC By-NC-ND 2.0\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Looking back at the history of educational technology, I came across multiple articles about how technology has improved. One of the articles I read, written by Tony Bates, was a blog post discussing how \u201croles of technology in education go back at least 2,500 years\u201d (2014, para 2). His example was the writing Moses chiseled on stone in the bible. As discussed by Bates, as technology advanced, such as writing tools, it challenged what was the accepted norm and lead to a resistance. I see this in current education, with the change in curriculum in BC, using more computer mediated tools. Resistance to change is a common theme seen throughout history and currently in education. <\/span><\/p>\n In his article, Bates broke education into different categories: oral communication, written communication, broadcasting & video, and computer technologies. As he discussed how the different technologies within the different categories has evolved and developed, he points out that most education technologies were not originally developed for education purposes, but for business, such as overhead projectors and powerpoint. I wonder how technologies developed specifically for education improvement today, compare statistically to the older, less specific technologies? <\/span><\/p>\n Reading through this article and its discussion of the printing press, it lead me back to a course I took in university (History of Biology) and the discussion around the most influential people in the last millenium (personal communication, 2012). After our course did our guessing, it was revealed that Johannes Gutenberg was giving the title for his invention of the printing press (Johannes Gutenberg, n.d.). It was the printing press that allowed mass production of words, which lead to more reading and changes to education. <\/span><\/p>\n The printing press made the world a smaller place by having written word reach with more people, and the internet has done that again, reaching a larger audience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I am curious what the next big invention or technology will be that completely revolutionizes the way we learn and live our lives, much like the printing press or the internet has done. <\/span><\/p>\n References<\/p>\n Bates, T. (2018). A short history of educational technology. Retrieved 9 September 2018, from https:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2014\/12\/10\/a-short-history-of-educational-technology\/<\/p>\n Johannes Gutenberg<\/span>. (n.d.). <\/span>In Wikipedia.<\/span><\/i> Retrieved 9 September 2018, from https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Gutenberg<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kinlund, C. (2011). Vintage Gutenberg printing press\u00a0[Photograph]. licensed under\u00a0CC By-NC-ND 2.0\u00a0 Looking back at the history of educational technology, I came across multiple articles about how technology has improved. One of the articles I read, written by Tony Bates, was a blog post discussing how \u201croles of technology in education go back at least 2,500 … Continue reading “From Printing Press to the Internet- what is next?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}